Deep Quote by Jeff Long

Rodgers & Hammerstein shows have a purity of unironic emotion that imprints itself upon people's hearts. They seem to touch our feelings so effortlessly.…

— Mary Rodgers

The genius of Rodgers and Hammerstein is that their songs become a part of the DNA of the audience.

— Nicholas Hammond

After the Rodgers and Hammerstein revolution, songs became part of the story, as opposed to just entertainments in between comedy scenes.

— Stephen Sondheim

Rodgers and Hammerstein didn't mean anything to me. I just wanted to have a hit, I just wanted to be like those people on…

— Art Garfunkel

Music is moral law. It is the essence of order and leads to all that is good, true and beautiful.

— Plato

The words of musicals were the moral codes that I lived by. I found meaning and messages in musicals that I didn't find in…

— Rosie O'Donnell

Music is moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life…

— Plato

Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is not in…

— Jean-Baptiste Joseph Emile Montegut

Stephen Sondheim told me that Oscar Hammerstein believed everything that he wrote. So there's great truth in the songs, and that's what was so…

— Bernadette Peters

I don't think anybody is anybody else's moral compass. Maybe listening to my music is not the best idea if you live a very…

— Lou Reed

Ever since I was a kid, I always wanted to play music that I liked, and even when I was in cover bands when…

— Neil Peart

They're always so serious, the orchestras, you know? It's always a fun contrast of that song and the genre of music. And me.

— Idina Menzel